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AIDS, Medicine & Miracles - HIV/AIDS Retreat

AIDS, Medicine & Miracles will celebrate it's 20th Anniversary
Nov. 21-23
at Asilomar Conference Center, Monterey, CA

For over 20 years AIDS, Medicine and Miracles has been providing life-changing empowerment programs for ALL people with HIV/AIDS including their loved ones and service providers. The annual retreats offer powerful experiential programs that build community and empower people to live healthy and responsible lives filled with hope. We provide a safe, nurturing, empowering environment for people to address the profound impact that HIV has on one’s life.

The AIDS, Medicine & Miracles retreat at the Asilomar Conference Center will feature lectures, discussion, ritual, meditation, yoga, support groups and experiential workshops that cover a broad base of topics. AM&M retreats are a welcoming and affirming place where people living with and affected by HIV receive support, community, rejuvenation, and share knowledge and understanding.

Some of this year's invited speakers are National AIDS Quilt founder - Cleve Jones, comic/HIV activist-Karen Williams, Comedienne/Playwrite/Poet-River Huston,  Ryan Kennedy, Mary Caston, Daniel Ramos, Gregg Cassin and many more.

For more information, visit www.aidsmedicineandmiracles.org 

The Heat Is On! - benefit for Visual AIDS

La MaMa presents The Heat Is One!
A Gay Cabaret Extravaganza to benefit Visual AIDS

Monday, JUNE 30th @ 8pm 

The Club at La MaMa
74A East 4th Street, NYC

Tickets $20 / $10 with Student ID
purchase tickets online

Host: Colman Domingo

 

Featuring:
LA JOHN JOSEPH
THE CHASE BROCK EXPERIENCE
JOSEPH KECKLER
RYAN   GREEN  
NOVICE THEORY
LARYSSA   HUSIAK

Top Row: La JohnJoseph, The Chase Brock Experience, Novice Theory
Bottom Row: Ryan Green, Laryssa Husiak, Joseph Keckler

For more info contact Matt Nasser at matt@lamama.org or 212-254-6468

Keith Haring's 50th Birthday - PARTY OF LIFE

The Keith Haring Foundation and Christine Visca presents
PARTY OF LIFE 2008 - Keith Haring's 50th Birthday

Sunday, May 4 from 9pm-4am

featuring:
Junior Vasquez and Louie Vega (Elements of Life)

Pacha
618 West 46th St., NYC

Open Bar: 9-10pm

Free Jeremy Scott/Keith Haring t-shirt

Advance Tickets $20 / $30 at the door

All tickers sales benefit
AIDS WALK NEW YORK

Hope: Living and Loving with HIV in Jamaica

Hope: Living and Loving with HIV in Jamaica brings together poetry, essays, documentaries, short video interviews, music, photography and the interactive website LiveHopeLove.com.

This project builds on the travels of poet and writer Kwame Dawes who returned to the country of his youth to speak with Jamaicans about the impact HIV has had on them and their country.  It is by far the most unique blending of Pulitzer Center coverage of a pressing underreported international issue – this one on America’s doorstep – and diverse media to reach the American public.

AIDS Awarness Video - Francesco D'Macho

Porn star Francesco D’Macho's UNAIDS campaign, reminds us to “use a f***ing condom”.

Transvestite Glitter Fairie Theatre

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Posted by   Caitlin Jones   on Tuesday, November 20th, 2007  at 8:01 am.

Dear Cockettes: an exhibition for and about the legendary acid queens The Cockettes just recently opened at UKS (the Young Artists Society) in Oslo, Norway. The Cockettes, who emerged from San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury community, performed "transvestite-glitter-fairie-theatre masques"--elaborate performances which even to the contemporary eye seem remarkably avant garde. "Gender fuck" is a term often associated with the group, as their signature beards, glitter, and transsexual costumes, according to Allen Ginsberg, enforced a "gay contribution to the realization that we're not a hundred percent masculine or feminine, but a mixture of hormones." The exhibition, which opened last week with a number of performances including one by London's 'House of Egypt' includes original vintage posters, photographic prints, scripts, newspaper articles, and other paraphernalia. The exhibition will include screenings of a number of rare films as well as the eponymous documentary feature by David Wiessman and Bill Webber (amazing clips and photos of which can be seen on the film's website). 'Dear Cockettes' should be seen as an important historical exhibition--one that looks beyond the usual conceptual and minimalist art history of the 1960s and 70s to cast a wider net of social relevance and cultural influence. The Cockettes can be seen not only as a precedent to glam rock era stars David Bowie and Elton John, but also contemporary performers like Devendra Banhart.

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MIX Festival - Experiments with Sound

20th MIX Festival
NOVEMBER 14-19, 2007
72 Greene St (btw Spring & Broome St)
20 YEARS OF DEDICATION TO DEMANDING EXPERIMENTAL QUEER FILMS
www.mixnyc.org

Because of the importance of sound in films, the MIX Film Festival has extended festival programming to include queer experimental performance audio components.  MIX is working with musicians and artists from across US as well as international artists to present their works in a new exciting dialog alongside experimental filmmakers.   

SPECIAL INTIMATE PERFORMANCE
Friday November16 & Saturday November17
1-4pm (please sign up for a 20 min time slot)
PRICE: $10

SOIE SOYEUSE (SILKY SILK)
Yvon Bonenfant
These 20-minute 'personal performances', created for audiences no larger than five, bring you into a world of silk and sound. Moving around you, Bonenfant chants intense stories - of wind and snow, of struggle and hunger, and of transformation and emergence - all through wordless singing and physical action. Vigorous and wild, yet somehow strangely sweet, this performance brings you into an audio encounter among live bodies and living, breathing hearts. Silky Silk is an invitation to engage with silk, to feel silk and to be silky.  It opens our unconscious desire to enjoy one’s own skin, and to go on the difficult journey toward the liberation of skin to be sensual.

Stripped & Exposed: Experiments with Sound
Sunday, November 18th, 9pm: MIX Closing Gala
72 Greene St (btw Spring & Broome St)
Price: $15
This live performance curation focuses on the experimentation of creating sounds, from altering traditional instruments, temporal recordings, to new technological advances for working with audio.  Each artist uses various methods of understanding fundamental elements of sound to create a shift in our conventional way of hearing; exposing for us, the subtle elements of our own emotions, and the ever shifting understanding of the world around us; exciting and enticing us to explore a world full of possibilities, changes, dreams and desires.

Curated by Ethan Shoshan, Approximate Run Time: 90min
Duo improvisations, James Coleman (Theremin) & Bill Hsu (computer)
Calling Havona, Aimee Norwich (hybrid bass/noiseplayer)
LIVE TRANSMISSION: attention and drawing as time-based performance, Morgan O'Hara
Despite Protestations, *V*I*R*G*O* & Charles Cohan
Collision of Elements, KMZ (Ken Montgomery & Michael Zodorozny)
Mikilandia Productions, Raul De Nieves, Mikki M. Olson & Nathan Whipple
The Loud Objects, Tristan Perich, Kunal Gupta, Katie Shima & Chris McDonald

For tickets or more information, visit www.mixnyc.org

MASQUEERADE

NYU Queer Union presents:

*MASQUEERADE*

Friday February 23rd @ 7 PM to Midnight

$5 NYU, $10 non-NYU
Co-sponsored with the NYU Office of LGBT Student Services

Location:
Kimmel Center
Rooms 405 & 406
60 Washington Square South

We cordially invite you to an evening of celebration showcasing diverse
queer voices through the mediums of visual art, spoken word, and music.
Intersecting art and activism, Masqueerade is a space for creative, critical
discourse: alternative idioms for action.

Proceeds from ticket sales and art auction will be donated to Queers for
Economic Justice to support members of our communities who are silenced by
socio-economic struggles.

Want to lend your talent to the show? Performers get free admission!
Send an email to queer.union.club@nyu.edu

Visual Art:
Chitra Ganesh, Felix Gardon, Frank H. Jump, Carlo Quispe, Andrew Robinson, Bill Travis, An Xiao, Emily Rinaldi, Sasha Stim-Vogel

Spoken Word:
Morteza Baharloo, Ignacio Rivera, Andrea Cofino, Jordan Dunn, Kat Katsanis

Music:
Kesting Charney, Julia Hall, Mel King, Sadat Iqbal & Niko Bakulich, Andrew Krowlikowski, Feral Foster & Roots n' Ruckus

See you there!

Sadat Iqbal
President, Queer Union at NYU

The New York Lesbian & Gay Experimental Film Festival presents: BAAD! Americans

MIX NYC Screenings
Presented by The New York Lesbian & Gay Experimental Film Festival:

Photo: On the Low

BAAD! Americans
Community Screening at the
Bronx Academy of Arts & Dance
Thursday and Friday, June 15 & 16
841 Barretto Street, 2nd Floor, Bronx (see directions below)

8:00 PM $5
Program curated by André Hereford. 

THURSDAY, June 15, 8pm

This Is How I Love You
Christopher Harris, 2005, USA, video, 14 min.
A personal documentary/journal of a young man from South LA that explores being black and gay -- both ethnic and moral minority. Written, directed and produced by LGBT youth of color in REACH LA's 2005 video production workshop.

On the Low
Dir: Luther Mace, 2004, USA, video, 16 min.
An African-American high school student comes to terms with his down-low relationship with another boy.

Queer Mexicana
Dir: Maria Cruz, 2005, USA, video, 1.5 min
A poetry video that defines the identity of a young Latina woman. Written, directed and produced by LGBT youth of color in REACH LA's 2005 video production workshop.

Boy Wonder
Dir: Kery Isabel Ramirez, 2005, USA, video, 12 min.
Luis struggles in a double life as straight male provider by day and transvestite prostitute by night, to satisfy his homophobic family. Written, directed and produced by LGBT youth of color in REACH LA's 2005 video production workshop.

Gay Life on the PL
Dir: Ana Lopez, 2002, USA, video, 8 min.
Girls! Girls! Girls! Girls, I do adore the party line! Written, directed and produced by LGBT youth of color in REACH LA's 2002 video production workshop.

The Pieces of Cente's Body
Dir: Hector Flores, 2004, USA, video, 5 min.
Dedicated to the memory of his one-of-a-kind Uncle Vincente/Aunt Marilin, the filmmaker's boldly personal exploration of everyone's natural right to declare "I am beautiful." Written, directed and produced by LGBT youth of color in REACH LA's 2004 video production workshop.

Rosa Negra, episode 1: Los Labias Mienten
Dir: Viva Ruiz, 2003, USA, video, 14 min.
The continuing saga of Rosa Luz Santiago de Jesus, a woman desperate for love amidst Brooklyns' pansexual, multicultural artists, dancers, and santero priests.

Photo: Viernes Girl

FRIDAY, June 16, 8pm
Immediately followed by the BAAD! Americans After-Party
w/ DJ Econ, drinks and more!

Blue Torn Petals
Dir: Hector Flores, 2005, USA, video, 3 min.
A poetic piece exploring inner feelings of frustration. A dark view looking through this artist's clouded window to the outside world. Written, directed and produced by LGBT youth of color in REACH LA's 2005 video production workshop.

Operation Invert
Dir: Tara Mateik, 2003, USA, video, 7 min.
Operation Invert compares the different regulations mediating botox-related plastic surgery and gender reassignment "sex change." Historical medial assessments of the invert (homosexual and transsexual) "condition" reveal seemingly outdated absurdities about outsider deviance.

Looks Like A Girl
Dir: Ana Lopez, 2004, USA, video, 10 min.
New friends and fun found on the internet send the filmmaker on a journey to find the meaning of "Studs" and "Fems." Written, directed and produced by LGBT youth of color in REACH LA's 2004 video production workshop.

Not Your Gramma's T Party
Dir: Luis Sierra, 2004, USA, video, 9 min.
In this first-person documentary short, Luis and friends break it down for you during a night of drinking, partying and true confessions. Written, directed and produced by LGBT youth of color in REACH LA's 2004 video production workshop.

Viernes Girl
Dir: Aurora Guerrero, 2005, USA, video, 7 min.
Sibling rivalry takes a turn when Chila and her older brother Hugo discover they have more in common than they think.

The Naked-Boy Business
Dir: André Hereford, 2006, USA, video, 5 min. (work-in-progress)
A tongue-in-cheek(s) take on straight boys' attitudes about the sexualized male body, using man-on-the-street interviews, "found" footage of modern-day semi-nude celebrities, sexy excerpts of the director's own work, and new video footage shot by That naked-Boy legend, Peter Berlin.

Rosa Negra, episode 2: Como Corre el Amor
Dir: Viva Ruiz, 2005, USA, video, 24 min.
The second installment of the pansexual, multicultural telenovela spoof continues with its adventures of sexy butches, knife-wielding girlfriends and sexy Latin@s in seedy back rooms. This time Rosa is kicked out of love again into the arms of gay-for-pay hustler Fabian Pornundo (portrayed by porn star, Tiger Tyson). Unusual hijinks ensue as we follow Rosa and her gaggle of gay, transgendered, and even straight friends and their love lives in downtown NYC.

DIRECTIONS TO BAAD!

By Car from MANHATTAN, EASTSIDE:
Take FDR drive north to the Willis Ave. Bridge Exit (just after 96th St.). Stay in right lane crossing over bridge. Immediately after crossing over the bridge, veer right. At the bottom of the exit there will be a light. Make a right onto Bruckner Blvd. Go straight and stay to your right. 2 to 3 lights down, a large black building with an "S&J" sign on the top of it and a neon sign of a woman in a champagne glass splits the road. Stay to the right of building. Immediately past the building you will see an overpass. Cross underneath the overpass and make an immediate left. Stay to the right continuing on the road. You will eventually be underneath the Bruckner expressway. Make a right onto Barretto Street. Go one and a half blocks. 841 Barretto will be on your right.

#6 TRAIN:
Take the #6 to Hunts Point Avenue. Cross under the Bruckner Expressway to Garrison Avenue (1 Block). Make a right onto Garrison Avenue and walk two blocks to Barretto Street. Make a left onto Barretto Street and walk up to middle of block to BAAD! on the right-hand side, red door.

#2 and #5 TRAINS:
Take the 2 or 5 trains to Simpson Street. Walk along Southern Blvd. until it intersects with 163rd Street and Hunts Point Avenue. You will see the elevated Bruckner Expressway. Cross under the Bruckner Expressway until you reach Garrison Ave. Make a right on Garrison Ave and walk two blocks to Barretto Street. Make a left onto Barretto Street and walk up to middle of block to BAAD! on the right hand side, red door.